Innovation speakers are visionary thinkers who embrace disruption in the marketplace. They tap into creative ways to solve our problems, reimagine business and marketing strategy, spark thought leadership, and breathe life into new product development.
Barbie Brewer
<p>The former Head of Talent at Netflix, Chief Culture Officer at GitLab and Chief People Officer at mParticle shows leaders and teams how to do remote culture well.</p><p>With more than 25 years as a human resources leader with deep expertise in leading distributed organizations, Barbie Brewer has played an integral role in nurturing and growing some of the media and technology industry’s best-known brands, including Netflix, IBM, Cisco, Applied Materials, and ClickUp.</p><p>As head of talent for Netflix from 2011 to 2017, Barbie’s knowledge and leadership hel
Neha Sampat
<p>It’s been said that Neha Sampat “goes against the grain of startup mythology.” She is a three-time tech founder and CEO, even though she comes from a non-technical background. Neha is known for building purpose-driven companies that are great places to work.</p><p>Neha is currently founder and CEO at Contentstack.
Claire Haidar
<p>Part chaos, part rocket fuel, Claire Haidar is a technology entrepreneur, student pilot and future thinker about all things human, work and play.</p><p>She believes that work is now a chaotic place. This is good and ultimately positive for humanity, but it’s highly disruptive for the foreseeable future. Chaos theory defined is this: what appears to be chaotic is in fact a complex system, where a lot of micro changes are happening regularly, in a seemingly unpredictable way.</p><p>Work on a global level is adopting these exact characteristics.
Tim Salau
<p>Tim Salau is a visionary leader, author, and CEO devoted to helping people thrive in their careers and personal lives.</p><p> As Chairman, co-founder, and CEO of Guide, a global lifestyle brand and platform empowering mental health professionals and clinics, Tim is shaping the future of care and career by delivering tools that enhance patient outcomes and deepen post-session engagement.
Ginger Kerrick
<p>Ginger Kerrick is Chief Strategy Officer for Barrios Technology, a small woman-owned human spaceflight company in Houston, Texas. </p><p>Prior to joining the Barrios executive team, Ginger served in multiple senior leadership roles at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) before retiring in 2021 including Deputy Director of the Exploration Integration and Science Directorate and JSC Assistant Center Director for Vision and Strategy. She spent the majority of her 30-year NASA career supporting JSC’s Flight Operations Directorate (FOD) in leadership roles, including Assistan
Kara Goldin
<p>Kara Goldin knows what it’s like to build a business, and a new category, from nothing to something big. She is a resilient, inspiring and motivational leader and storyteller.
Suneel Gupta
<p>Suneel Gupta asks audiences, leaders and teams: “How can an organization excel on the outside if its people are exhausted on the inside?”</p><p>As the founding CEO of RISE, a breakthrough wellness company, Suneel Gupta helped thousands of people build better habits for life and work. Now as a bestselling author and Harvard Medical School visiting scholar, Suneel has taken his mission one step further – helping people achieve sustainable peak performance by bolstering emotional resilience and engagement.
Dan Heath
<p><em>NYT Times Bestselling Author</em>, Dan Heath offers a breadth of expertise to teach audiences at any level how to lead successful change, make communication stickier, and improve their decision-making skills.</p><p>Dan Heath is the co-author, along with his brother Chip, of four long-running bestsellers: <em>Made to Stick</em>,<em> Switch</em>, <em>Decisive</em>, and <em>The Power of Moments</em>. The Heath Brothers’ books have sold over three million copies worldwide and been translated into 33 languages.
Kate O'Neill
<p>Kate O’Neill is a digital innovator, chief executive, business writer, and globally recognized speaker widely known as the “Tech Humanist.” She is the founder and CEO of KO Insights, a strategic advisory firm that enhances human experiences at scale through data-driven and AI-led interactions.
Robert Richman
<p>Robert Richman is a culture strategist and was the co-creator of Zappos Insights, an innovative program focused on educating companies on the secrets behind Zappos’ amazing employee culture.</p><p>Robert built Zappos Insights from a small website to a thriving multi-million dollar business teaching over 25,000 students per year.